1,250 mph London to Peterborough supersonic train ride

Inter-city 1250 (1982)
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Forget High Speed 2. This is high speed 1982, a fast-forward pelt from King's Cross to Peterborough in four minutes. Originally titled Inter-city 1250, this promo was one of the last films for the public produced by the film unit of British Rail.
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[@MrKevinpscott]

yep the driver hits the breaks coming into the platform everyone goes arse over tit and sent crashing into the next coach .

[@ahsanaasim7708]

Arse over tit😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@D0OMGUY]

Haven't heard that saying in years lmao

[@theaustraliantrainspotter]

R/ihadastroke

[@andymadden8183]

@@theaustraliantrainspotter ?

[@VulcanTrekkie45]

Honestly at that speed they'd probably more likely be chunky style salsa if he hit the brakes that fast.

[@millicentduke6652]

I’m just imagining how blistering hot the body of this train would be after three minutes at those speeds. No way anyone is reaching out a window to open a car door from the outside without losing the skin on their hand.

[@Ramtamtama]

"...but the train was going so fast his hat blew off into a field, where a goat ate it for tea!"

[@lopwr1212]

@@Ramtamtama Gordon

[@wisamshehadeh7158]

Keep in mind it’s time lapse the actual speed is 120 mph😂 but 1250 mph Mach 1.87 would kill you rip your arm of 3 tons per square inch load on the outer surface insane

[@dieseldragon6756]

Thus completely negating the need for Central Door Locking. Those folk at BR knew what they were doing... 🙃

[@wisamshehadeh7158]

1250 mph 😂😂😂😂 Mach 1.7 the train would be on fire from the extreme load pressure 😂

[@hoagy_ytfc]

You'd still want to be faster than this going through shit-holes like Stevenage.

[@EportChris]

You legend 😂

[@avtom_]

@Confused Carrot ah yes I see you’re also a man of culture!

[@avtom_]

@Confused Carrot the good people of stevenage have no incentive to use their cycle lanes, their roads are just too acceptable...

[@reecewharf]

You must maintain a minimum speed of 1500mph to avoid your wheels beimg stolen

[@deltastransportadventures4083]

I mean.. AHEM (Luton)

[@reapanomin899]

TGV: *Chuckles* I'm in danger.

[@JulianTrainKidProductions]

LMAO

[@ihavealugnutforabrain4772]

God its so true.

[@davidbailey533]

Great film just shame that when u get shots of passengers you can see it going at normal speed

[@bertiewooster3326]

Could you help us change this ? We assume you are an expert ?

[@WETiLAMBY]

@@bertiewooster3326 that wouldn’t be difficult at all, it takes a clip mask over the window which you can overlay above the original video sped up and looped. That technology wasn’t available back when this was made but now it’s accessible to anyone. So yes, he can

[@bertiewooster3326]

@@WETiLAMBY Well I goes to the bottom of our garden I'm still getting use to 13amp sockets in our house.

[@jayy9029]

you could also just let the real life people move really slowly so when they speed up the clip it looks like they’re doing it at normal speed

[@hemprope4326]

10/10 realism. Train would definitely not fly off the rails

[@hhhharis622]

even the clouds go faster when this train is nearby

[@thetoekster6728]

Isnt s0exu9 too nah

[@stained36]

wheels totally dont overheat and explode

[@dangerouslytalented]

@@hhhharis622 that’s because of the supersonic shockwave

[@hhhharis622]

@@dangerouslytalented obviously

[@GWVillager]

Ah yes, the Intercity 1250, train of my childhood. I have many (short, yes, but many) happy memories of this train.

[@ConfusedOxygen]

hello gw

[@DarenPage]

x10 speed.

[@remerodelvolga6598]

Jajajaa x24

[@narayanilakshmi4949]

@@remerodelvolga6598 Can you say that in English please I don't understand Spanish

[@remerodelvolga6598]

@@narayanilakshmi4949 learn, pretty

[@mverick5444]

@@remerodelvolga6598 kekekeke x24

[@mirzaahmed6589]

No shit, Sherlock.

[@sayanchatterjee355]

This is my favourite video in all youtube. I don't know why I keep coming back to this time and again. It gives me goosebumps. The railways are really one of the greatest achievements in modern human civilization. Connecting millions everyday.

[@kadinothebean3419]

@josh he is not saying this train in the video is real if he did he would probs be sarcastic he is talking of the invention by the british

[@MrJohnL21]

Brilliant take on the London to Brighton in 4 minutes film. They've even got the sounds right!

[@TSPr0ject]

I have been looking for this for years too. My brother had it on a video he got from the Railway book club and I remember being fascinated by it as a child and watching it over and over. Although I never became a train spotter like my brother, I always loved the HST and was sorry to see it's demise on the GWR recently. I hope plenty end up in preservation.

[@jubiakajoseph7152]

haters say this is sped up

[@verynice8494]

Fair point

[@HarryElliott_2007]

But it is really sped up I'm not lying I'm not a hater it was really sped up

[@jubiakajoseph7152]

@@HarryElliott_2007 didn't ask

[@lietuve2001]

once you notice when the cab view you can definitely see the clouds go faster than normal

[@jubiakajoseph7152]

@@lietuve2001 It was just a windy day

[@tehangrybird345]

Brain: put it on x2 speed Me: no why Brain: just do it

[@hoodygold8900]

Now you made me do it

[@bobandveganlover9532]

Did this them immediately saw this comment.

[@stained36]

damn it

[@kapilsethia9284]

2500 mph

[@fanofananimal4420]

I love how the passengers are sitting there casually as if nothing is going past them quicker then they can see it

[@TerryTheNewsGirl]

Been looking for this for years!! Made me a very happy Trance. Thank you, BFI!!

[@Allan9966]

I never realised that the 125 was so quick, how come we need HS2 today when we could travel at these speeds 30 years ago? The clouds seemed a lot quicker in those days too ;-)

[@lorddarlo6194]

HS2 does like 186 mph or something same as HS1 just a waste of money if they had given Branson his 140mph capabilities for the Pendos we wouldn't have this issue

[@adamlea6339]

HS2 is there to increase capacity along the WCML route which is saturated and cannot cope with the projected increase in demand, it is no longer possible to increase capacity by tinkering with it. The only way to increase capacity is to build another rail line, and in doing so you might as well make it a modern high speed one. The express services can then be moved off the WCML onto HS2, which frees WCML capacity for more local stopping services to service the smaller population centres. The media have framed this as purely a speed issue but it isn't, that is merely a secondary benefit. The primary function of HS2 is to satisfy projected future rail demand along that route. I would say it is extremely unlikely the suppressing effect of the pandemic on transport is going to be permanent.

[@DavidNightjet]

We've learned to take our time since then

[@dieseldragon6756]

When it comes to the railways, there is something - Made by BR - That will never *ever* be beaten. Not even by the French... 🚄🇫🇷❤‍🔥 ...The „Open Return” time of a British Rail ham sandwich! 🥪🤢🚽😳🤣

[@honestbrian1]

This takes me back to the winter of 1980 when I rode this service multiple times. I used to catch the first train in the morning from Peterborough, I think 6am and come back on the late train in the evening.I still remember well the chimneys as you approach Peterborough.

[@lizadey5347]

It’s a wonderful train. Remember my first 125 from Didcot to Bath in 1978. So much better than the useless older trains.

[@plaguesondemand6040]

Wow. That would certainly shave a good 45 minutes off

[@spidyman8853]

Yep, 125 is a powerful diesel engine

[@ataphelicopter5734]

Bit of a shame to still be using them a half century later though :/

[@taiterobinson793]

Love the start of it with the music coming into tune as you pull out the tunnels south of Finsbury Park, passing by Harringay, Hornsey, Alexandra Palace, and onwards through north London

[@mikhailc6445]

reading through the comments, surprised nobody has mentioned how great that song was?

[@nobodycares85]

I did no such thing :D

[@CountScarlioni]

That wasn't a song. That was the sound of the Intercity 1250's engine! That's why trains can't go so fast any more. The world has lost all that 80s synth awesomeness!

[@jisunzhoque]

The fastest diesel train I've ever seen XD

[@Ramtamtama]

2:21 that baby is going to turn 40 next year

[@epicdumbgaming8943]

My god....

[@wizdem2737]

Finally, someone making my day great

[@qasimmir7117]

Those trains used to scream slowly past my primary school. Loudest diesel engines I’ve ever heard. Brilliant.

[@bbrs925]

Paxman Valentas !

[@brucetharpe762]

Intercity 125 living my dream! Supersonic trains for life!

[@sirharryvlogsandgaming9499]

I don’t think it was going that fast I think it was sped up but I don’t know if it was still supersonic

[@damianboyd1636]

It was sped up like 10× faster than real time

[@FAngus-ly8lk]

The clouds in the sky seem to moving at supersonic speed in many of the shots. Gosh.

[@nathanJordannath89]

F. Angus nah just a windy ol day😂

[@robtyman4281]

This is so 80's! .... love it. ''Journey time to Peterborough: 3 minutes'' lol.

[@JustSteve247]

if only.

[@ninjasiren]

The Sonic boom of this will break glasses and people's ears.

[@bjoe385]

The sonic boom at ground level, and the noise of the wheels and the rails and the noise of the two engines producing the millions of horsepower required would be one of the loudest sounds ever.

[@richardkirka5977]

They must have had some great inertial dampeners, too. Assuming the materials could hold up, the switch from track to track would be in the neighborhood of 1000 Gs. The train stayed on the track, and the passengers were never smooshed against the walls.

[@cosycleaner]

Ah, the days when rail travel was affordable and easy...

[@alexanderpapouis4595]

Despite what people say, British Rail wasn't actually very good, that's why it shut down after all.

[@grahamariss2111]

I used to use the WCML Euston to Coventry in the late 80s, it an endless tale of cancelled trains and delays on dirty trains that bounced around on the badly maintained track between the dirty grey stations. I could never have imagined we could have anything as good and frequent as the Pendalino train service we have today nor would the stations be so smart and have places I am happy to eat at, that I use now.

[@PfadiHH]

and fast!

[@spidyman8853]

You can thank privatisation for that. All problems stem from privatisation from rails to utilities.

[@megalodon5185]

Ah, the joys of BR, before it was privatised

[@hadrionics2755]

'Hello, and welcome to the Black Mesa transit system' *host_framerate 0.1*

[@sightscreen66]

It needs a CGI makeover to convert the views out of the windows into a spectrum shifted linear blur, while early 80s passengers squint at the impossibility of it all.

[@charliemacsween7881]

I am literally getting motion sickness reading the comments and watching this at the same time.

[@ashishjoshi8148]

Damn, some of these BFI videos are the bees' knees, so to speak. It reminds me of the time I used to live in the UK. Go BFI!

[@ibrahimjalloh6603]

We could be Anywhere In Less Than 1 hour

[@davidjeffreys9063]

Didn't our country look good back in those days, pity they didn't keep it like that

[@quackinnit1968]

This would derail the second it hits a normal turn

[@alsmith5604]

Where did you find this?? I remember seeing this as a kid, and loved it... I haven't seen it for over 30 years, but still remember the music so clearly!

[@harveywilde6781]

I actually love sped up footage. Because the fps is so high, so the footage looked really smooth.

[@constancemitchell9846]

This is real. London has some real dipetsonic trains. Thus is no joke. Have. Even to Peterb.on these fast trains.Amazing ride.

[@sirharryvlogsandgaming9499]

How fast did they go was it 125 mph the normal speed limit on the ECML

[@harper277]

Late seventies early eighties were awesome. Thatcher, Yuppies on this train, Miners Strike, The Falklands War, British Rail.

[@Allan9966]

yes, I loved it!

[@davidhedges1729]

Ahhhh! The days before Azuma, the worlds most inconvenient and uncomfortable train.

[@rabd9881]

Glad to see you love it

[@maxbramwell.1598]

If only British rail still ran it

[@eurouc]

Hmmm? 🤔 Somethings not right. Super fast out of the engineers window, yet the view out of the passenger windows seems quite slow .

[@thatSteveSmith]

It's a time warp

[@Ramtamtama]

@chris brady you can tell by the way he called the driver an "engineer"

[@Ramtamtama]

@@thatSteveSmith it's just a jump to the left

[@aod.1]

That one lady tied up on the tracks - *_boom_*

[@N00N01]

Glad they produced it , even though back when there wearent a lot of people who cared about rail :)

[@noxilord7116]

Will i just made it 2,500mph by making the video 2x speed

[@user-yp1gj2kz3o]

I like how in the future people will no longer be using their phones and going back to newspapers.

[@raisagorbachov]

LOL. I took a Bristol to Edinburgh train once. 2 hours late arriving in Bristol, 4 hours late arriving in Edinburgh!

[@nimorachard]

it looks so fast. like so real. wow

[@fluffyfour]

Ah, the days you could board a train without a) a booking b) a reserved seat c) only being allowed to travel on a specific train d) a mortgage to pay for a meal. Why is life so difficult and complicated now?

[@AnimMouse]

Government regulations.

[@apoisedthought8579]

Everyone riding this thing would be dead just from the air pressure entering tunnels. And the curves???? LMAO

[@DankDaniel]

The first time a timelapse was used.. And they thought they can trick us 😂

[@ianprince1698]

so London to Brighton in 4 min was not time lapse?

[@brucewilliams8714]

As a visitor to Britain I remember that appalling entrance to King's Cross.

[@CountScarlioni]

Yes, thankfully that eyesore is long gone now.

[@Ramtamtama]

that eyesore is why WB used St Pancras to represent Kings Cross in Harry Potter

[@tehangrybird345]

570mph Acela: I have met my match

[@mandywarhol1126]

Britain's answer to TGV! In France they have to SLOW DOWN the film - otherwise you wouldn't SEE the train!

[@alantraish3368]

Perfect Performance, George Fenton KPM

[@juliocesarpereira4325]

A very well made movie.

[@mattauks1180]

Imagine what bank would the rails have to have to be able to achieve such speeds

[@gregretro]

Conveniently ignoring the major scientific laws of nature... we're British Rail!

[@bjoe385]

Would probably need 4,000,000 horsepower.

[@lrvproductions]

The intercity 1250 much faster than your 125, 225 Intercity were getting there faster than you’ve ever seen!

[@A3Kr0n]

Four minutes and thirty seconds. The time I'll never get back.

[@GreatWestern175]

Saved by the bells at the end

[@christopherdean1326]

Love the way people are working in the train, using pens and notepads rather than laptops!

[@dieseldragon6756]

Fifty years later and the new Class 800 trains are doing just 200km/h (125mph) along this stretch. Whatever happened to *Progress* and so-called *Levelling Up?* 🚄🇬🇧😉 Mind you: This is reasonable proof that scrapping the Regional Eurostar project was a *BIG* mistake... 😐

[@jamesgoodwin2450]

This will be possible in the year 2000 for sure

[@brentsummers7377]

Wow, at that speed the poop and pee from flushing the toilet would cover many a sleeper and rail. Maybe trains in the UK no longer drop poop and pee onto the rails but some did until very recently.

[@Viper-CT]

Is this supposed to be an April fools joke? about the HST`s going ludicrously fast? Its brilliant!

[@trainsgb]

Set the speed to 2x....

[@percyengineproductions061]

great music!

[@Blovu420]

Bro, that is faster than me when my mum call me to eat

[@quackinnit1968]

Unless I don't like the food

[@Sunshine_smile007]

Ah yes the power of 2x video speed

[@ThomasCorfield]

Oh, love that music. BTW, most of the people on the train would be divorced, dithering or dead by now.

[@harold6640]

Just a normal day

[@sheggy1986]

ahhh the power of 5x playback speed.

[@mervynsands3501]

Breaking the sound barrier went unnoticed by the passengers, the view outside just seemed to fly by!!! 😂😄😄😄😄🤪 If only tilting trains did this, you'd be there in no time!

[@with2ells]

Great synth music (pure, not pop); fast VCA, slow VCF modulation ala Vangelis, with the elegaic synth brass theme.

[@tonywebb6443]

Why would they want a hot drink/meal if the journey only took 3 minutes! 😀

[@limeflake4192]

BR: Dam our Trains are like the Slowest in the World also BR: Lets just speed up the vid to make it faster

[@tomwebber9377]

Steely Dan was ahead of its time: 90-minutes from NY to Paris....what a beautiful world it would be.....

[@bcgrote]

85 plus miles. Trip takes nearly 2 hours today.

[@adamclark1972uk]

Wow. In the eighties it took only 4 minutes.

[@2ndplace1]

It takes 45 minutes today...don't know where you got 2 hours from

[@sitsia3808]

@@2ndplace1 maybe stops on all different stations?

[@emporioalnino4670]

You can get a LNER service it takes ~50m stopping at Stevenage

[@D34D_WestlandsOfficial]

I wish i lived in the 80s so i could get to peterborough in only 3 minutes

[@davidhull1481]

Notice how the shots from inside the train aren’t sped up? Only the forward facing ones and the ones from outside

[@thestolenmhrproperty2102]

Watching this makes me want the HSTs back on the East Coast mainline

[@xbx.trains2192]

Crazy this is real nothing like this anymore

[@Alex_Plante]

Image the shock wave as it goes through a tunnel

[@ouanouachannel11thgamerfro16]

I need to make intercity maglev

[@JintySteam1]

The music sounds like something from Superman.

[@robbutterill1426]

so **this** is what liam gallagher kept singing about all them years ago

[@TrainTasticIR]

Request to BFI , pls upload blue pullman train documentary

[@jamesecroucher]

And yet it still managed to arrive 12 minutes late for some unfathomable reason

[@flamegaming1846]

This is definitely real 😂

[@MrBawdry]

Nobody would ever be in that much of a rush to get to Peterborough. Now if it were going the other way...

[@cipherrephicsamplename554]

now introducing the intercity 12500. we dont care if it breaks all your bones, at least you arent in Peterborough anymore.

[@CountScarlioni]

@@cipherrephicsamplename554 Having lived in Peterborough, it's a price I would have gladly paid!

[@ibrahimjalloh6603]

It’s Kind Of Like Hyperloop

[@sitsia3808]

?

[@sunburst6598]

sitsia it’s a super sonic train that’s in the works

[@stephaniemariedearden9344]

Nice livery

[@spidyman8853]

LOL 😂😂😂 You wish. 125 was the max speed and to be fair, it did as it said on the tin.

[@rocketdaone]

Imagine a train hitting Mach Speeds into a station

[@abloogywoogywoo]

I guess everyone saw those awful sandwiches being served in the buffet and went 1,250mph to avoid them.

[@ihavealugnutforabrain4772]

You do reallise its just a sped up video from probally the 70's